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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
THE DA1RYMAN.
Some Dairu Rasles.


Don't expect to get No. milk from No.
Don't think the COW will be your friend
unless you are her friend.
Don't imagine you can strain manure
out OF the milk; keep them separate and
save trouble.
Don't wait until the COW calves before
you "break" her; do it while she is calf
herself, and save more trouble.
Don't breed to any but pure.bred bulls;
even 63-64ths. Better have the Gath, then
the forthcoming calf will please you.
Don't think because COWS will drink out
OF mud-puddle it is good enough for
them.
Don't drive them from the pasture with a
dog; it saves time but wastes milk and COW.
Feed some meal at night and they will
drive themselves.
Don't set your milk in shallow pans or
crooks; get portable creamery, or, if you
can't afford that just yet, have some deep,
fiat cans made, and set them in q tank Of
cold water. Time, labor, and cream saved
will soon enable you to buy creamery.
Don't let your bull get as fat as seal or
half starve him. Take the middle course.
Don't forget the lump Of rock salt.
Don't handle the bull without strong
staff. Perfectly gentle,'' is he? Then
keep enough cash on hand to pay your
funeral expenses.
Don't fool around the bull-pen with ten
penny nails; use twenties.
Don't churn after the butter globules
are the size of q pins head.
Don't be afraid of Cutting the market
with No. butter.
Don't let the calf suck the COW more
than three days. Two are better, one best.
Don't forget to make arrangements to
warm the water for your COWS next winter.
Don't be afraid to try small silo, or
large one.
Don't use churn with dash in it.
Don't waste your time looking for gen.
eral-purpose COW.
Don't buy a special purpose- milk breed
to make butter OF special-purpose- butter
breed for milk.
Don't milk at 6 o'clock to-day, to-mor-
row, and 1880 the day after.
Don't think the COW will be insulted if
you give her a friendly pat every time you
are within reach of her. Such pats are
returned in pats Of butter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
Hill or Leyel Cu,t,.ye.

1t has been for many years disputed
question whetherllevel or hill culture was
better for growing crops, bat as there are
80 many differences in soils, while the
modes required for crops of all kinds are
unlike, the experience Of each farmer on
his own soil can alone decide the matter.
The fact is that under certain conditions
either mode may be better than the other.
On soils that are damp, with subseils COM
posed of stiff clay, the killing system may
perhaps be preferable; but where the soil
is we'll underdrained, or the ground rolling,
the level system may be more suitable.
Cultivation of the soil is intended not only
to clear off the grass and weeds, but also
to assist the growing plants to obtain and
retain the greatest amount of heat and
moisture, as we'll as to afford more feed to
the roots. Something also depends upon
the kind of manure and fertilizer used, and
upon the quantity applied. In an expert
ment tried by an agricultural journal, pota-
toes were grown at the rate of one thousand
bushels per acre, but the fertilizer used
was in sufficient quantity to supply all the
requirements Of the crop. The level cul-
tivation was practiced in growing the crop,
and it is probable that complete failure
would have been the result had the killing
system been followed, for the reason that
In order to dissolve SO large an amount of
mineral fertilizer plenty of moisture was
necessary, which was retained by the field
being level. By cultivat1ng the entire sur
face the fine earth served as covering, or
mulch, thereby preventing evaporation, as
capillary attraction drew the moisture up
from below, the connection, however, be-
ing broken where the soil YVES stirred. Hill
cultivation would not only have required
the hoe to certain extent, but would have
caused the exposure of larger surface to
the air, producing greater evaporation.
Corn growers are aware that the roots of
growing corn extend in every direction,
and for this reason many farmers check
their corn in the rows and cultivate in both
directions, the desire being not to stir the
soil deeply, but to keep the surface fine.
But on stiff, wet soils hill cultivation is
sometimes necessary, or the young corn
will be injured from heavy rains. All soils
that have been we'll titled with drain-tiles
will permit of level culture, as the most
tenacious soils are pulverized by the air
and heat if we'll drained. No rule, how
ever, can be laid down for all to follow, as
hill or level culture depends entirely upon
circumstances.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09

eleep again, "Well, thank Heaven, I'm
pot marching with the army tonight,
nor sleeping on the ground"
And so, I doubt not, do many thou
Fands Of veterans wake and reflect.
They tell me that they can't make
ne people half understand the life they
fed IN the army. They say that the
more they think of it the stranger it
6eems to themselves. I think l under
E1and the feeling. The experience was
strange, that it is hard now to make
seem real. Comrade Ben Crownin-
fhleld, Of the Massachusetts, Cavalry,
Nftes to me that he has learned Ger
nan since the close of the war, and that
now ne always dreams IN Dutch about
u Just as if it were too queer for our
0wn tongue.
cannot hope to convey an adequate
tuea OF what soldiers in the field sui
Eefed, to the people who only know
eooat war as the subject of some high
bio"n history, illustrated with all
snds of impossible pictures. [ will
lot Try to do it. I will merely try to
quicken the recollection of those COM
saes who served with the regiments
aat dld the marching and the fighting,
10 what they suffered while the army
IeF were attached to was moving
ND I4 getting ready to fight.
mere we are: time, five o'clock a.
~ the dawn of blistering July day;
.11Ge, anywhere in the South. The
E ;;e1as, acres OF them, are covered with
.'tle "dog-tents" enough to shelter in
Eo, Poor kind of way thirty thousand
oialers. II you are awake at this
s soar you will hear bugle-note; then
s tau1her' and another; then the distant
s sa and scream of fife and drum,
r living nearer and nearer as each
t T1If' 1s band takes up the "reveille,"
- "a al the camps are astir and alive.
mere is loud murmur everywhere;
kol1 y the First Sergeants calling the
hnn OF the company. This done. in
es aaneSa6le small fires break forth in
eoe1iy direction. The soldiers are
ill., Oo1 ~ their breakfast; they are boil
H. H. t tilelr coffee, to be partken of out OF
ia cup that each man carries; they
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
s,.e.,er.uu s,y;,,e.

SheItertnD StciNc.
OF oil farm animals, swine suffer most
from lack of shelter, and are most difficult
to shelter properly. The bodies are COM
pact, fat, and lightly covered, and the
animals huddle closely together. The re-
suit is that parts of the body are over
heated, the pores opened. and when the
mess" is broken up the animals contract
colds and other diseases. 1t the bodies
and habits were like those of sheep, cattle,
and horses, they might suffer more from
cold, but not more from lack of shelter.
Besides, the bodies of other farm animals
have warmer coverings to retain the animal
heat and prevent rapid chilling.
The conditions which make it important
to shelter swine make it difficult to shelter
them properly. If the hogs shelter is as
warm as that of other animals he will get
overheated. Unless, therefore, he is
isolated, he needs no litter in his shelter.
Again, because of his large proportion of
fat, greater amount of carbonic acid gas
and other offensive matter is thrown off
through his breath and other channels,
and, therefore, his shelters need better
ventilation. Besides this, swine spend
more time i'll their shelters than other
animals, hence are most injured if these
are dark, and yet the hog shelter is the
last one to be lighted. To make it warm,
all air and light are both shut out.
70 remedy these evils is easy enough.
Glass--costing but tritle--on the south
side will admit light. 1t is easy to make
the shelter not too warm. Ventilation is
secured by holes just under the caves
where no rain or snow can enter.
Hogs suffer greatly when they are both
cold and wet. IT dry they will endure q
low temperature with little discomfort.
Hence the roof is the most important part
of the shelter. 1t must be close, no matter
how open are the sides. If the hogs have
a good roof to lie under on some steep
southern hillside they will get along very
we'll with that alone, providing ridge of
earth is thrown up along the upper side to
protect them from wind and surface water.
But of course they should have better
quarters.
My favorite hog shelter is thing Of
cheapness rather than beauty. 1t is made
of logs or large poles, built up four feet
high. and notched to prevent rolling. The
cracks are chinked close up to height OF
three feet-this is high enough to ward of
direct queensland the cracks above this
ara left open for ventilation. A good ROOT
OF boards or straw is put on. The shelter
is built on a southern slope, and a door.
way is cut in the south side. A shallow
ditch is cut around the upper side and the
dirt from it thrown against the log. Thit
is the best as we'll as the cheapest swine
shelter l have ever seen.-Joh7l N. Stahl
an Philadelphia Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Topics of Interest Relating to
Farm and Household
Management.
Information for the Plowman, Stock.
man, Poulterer, Nurseryman,
and Housewife.
THE FARMER.
Popularity of E,,s,,aoe.

Last season Prof. Cook, of the Michigan
AAgrIcultural College, visited Ohio, New
YORK, and Wisconsin, and attended
farmers meetings, and did his best to
acquaint himself with the best practice and
experience as to the silo. He was sur
Prlsed at the unanimity of opinion among
tnose who had used silage. Every man
was enthusiastic in it's praise. No one was
tearing his silo down, but many were
building more. According to the best in
formation he cleaned during his visit, he
concludes that silo can be made very
cheaply right in the barn. We have only
10 make large double walled box, using
Jared building paper, that it may be prac-
ideally air-tight. Two by ten ioists are
used, so that the walls are ten inches apart.
me bottom is grouted, and it is thoroughly
Hralned It necessary, against water. The
door is double, and made in horizontal
sections, SO it can be opened gradually
from Vie top. It is easier and cheaper to
rake ths silage at time of feeding from the
Top than to cut down. The favorite size is
ABOUT fifteen feet in each of the three
dimensiona It is better, he thinks, to
have two orthree small silos than one large
one. The dorm for the silo should be cut,
ears and all, into inch lengths, and not put
TOO rapidly into the silo. 1t is best to fill
one day, then rest day, and SO on. When
hillng, the sut corn should be trodden
about the edge and corners, and when full
the building piper should be laid over the
top and extendso as to pass up Il little at
the walls or sides; then all covered by
boards and weighted by grain or hay. 1t
Is believed that the very sweetest and best
silage is thus secured in the easiest and
cheapest mannef, with the minimum rush
and labor
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
7OcE-yutU.

Let any one who has an attack of lock-
jaw, says an exchange, take small
quantity Of turpentine, warm it and pour
it on the wound, no matter where the
wound is, and relief will follow in less than
a minute. Nothing better can be applied
to severe cut OF bruise than cold turpen-
tine; it will give certain relief almost in
stantly. Turpentine is almost certain
remedy for Group. Saturate piece of
flannel on the throat and chest, and in a
very severe case three or four drops on o
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
Hints for Ho,.sekcepc,s.

NEVER have sink under window if
you can avoid it.
EAT one or two lemons daily for inf]am-
matory rheumatism.
MORTAR and paint may be removed
from window glass with sharp vinegar.
The Juice of tomato is said to be excel
lent for removing ink. wine, and fruit stains.
IF person is threatened with fainting.
battle the head with warm, not cold, water,
GLAZE the bottom crust of fruit pies
with the white of egg, and they will not be
soggy.
weeks before using and it will last much
longer.
A TEAsPooNFUL of carbolic acid in a
quart of pure soft water is good wash for
mosquito bites.
NEVER have dark furniture in the
kitchen; it shows dust much moro than
light, and requires double the care.
WHEN laid away for any length OF time,
linen should be washed, rough dried with
out bluing, and laid in loose folds without
much weight on it.
BATHING the affected parts in inHam-
matory rheumatism with half an ounce of
saltpetre in half an once of sweet oil is
said to be good plan.
In beating eggs beat the yolks until you
can take up q spoonful; whip whites to
stiff froth and stir them into cake with the
flour the last thing before putting cake into
tins.
THE simple sure cure for an offensive
kitchen waste pipe is concentrated I've
poured in boiling hot, and which will make
soap in a twinkling all along the greasy
line.
BOILED potatoes ought to be laid out On
plate, and are then as good for frying or
MASKING as if they were freshly cooked. If
left heaped up they will often spoil in one
night.
ALUMP Of soda laid upon the drain pipe
down which waste water passes will pre-
vent the clogging of the pipe with grease,
especially if the pipe is flooded every week
with boiling water.
PROF. TYNDALn has proved that atmos-
pheric germs cannot pass through o layer
of cotton, and it is now said that preserved
fruit may be kept in perfect condition by
covering the jar with cotton batting.
Putrefaction is caused by minute atmos-
pheric germs. These are expelled by
cooking, and the Gotten batting prevents
their return when the fruit cools
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09

the necessities of the farmer may require.
10 this Prof. Scovell replies at length,
giving analyses from various sources, and
concludes that this fodder will do to feed
to carry stock through the winter, but for
mich COWS and stock being fattened it
should be fed along with other food richer
IN protein, as bran, corn, or cetton-seed
meal.
In estimating relatively as between corn
fodder and hay Prof. Scovell finds the
money value of corn fodder, when properly
fed, to be $6.33 per ton, as against good
timothy hay at $3.50 per ton, allowing
that all the hay is eaten by the stock. But
it must be remembered that in practice
only the leaf, the husk, and portion of
the top are eaten even by cattle. More
than half the weight of corn fodder is not
eaten, and hence in practice the edible
portions of the stalk are as nutritious as
the best hay. The practical farmer finds
no better milk-producing food than the
leaves and husks of corn, in connection
with other food, for milch COWS; it is
equally good for other farm stock. In
fact, an acre of cornstalk fodder is esti-
mated to feed as far as ton of the best
hay as usually fed without cutting in a
machlne.-Chicago Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
THE STOcK-BREEDER.
Corr. Fodder for Stock.

President Patterson, of the State College
of Kentucky, in letter to Prof. NJ. A.
Scovell, director of the experiment station
of that State, asks that the true feeding
value be accurately determined of Ken
lucky corn fodder shocked in the fall,
the stalks yet green, and corn fully ripened,
husked, the fodder leshucked, and fed as
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
Im Cases Of Poiso,.i,.a

Make your patient vomit by giving tum-
bier of warm water with tablespoonful
of mustard in it, and send for the doctor.
II the poison is acid give magnesia and
water and plenty of warm water besides.
If it is an alkali like potash, give vinegar
and water, lemon juice or some other safe
acid. Always remember the emetic first.
If laudanum, strong coffee is a good thing
to give until the doctor comes. Keep the
patient awake.-Philadelphia Cal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09

on the paymaster. An inspection of
the books showed some strange names
Tor that liberal Company j, and Colonel
bunninS assured his sutler that not q
man OF Company j belonged to the
command. AS soon as he mastered the
situation Ezekiel pulled long fac
iala remarked con1idcntially to the
why, d. them Company J fell
1h o., They've hup-hecndea me, have1-'t
tie resigned shortly afterward, and
was succeeded by John hunt, the APP
Ple'outter man, Who was "considablc"
hard to "hup-heend."
ao>. w. c. HlcNs1AN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
Mrs. Pickett.

The heroine of this years celebration
Of the battle of Gettysburg was Mrs.
Pickett, widow of the Confederate
General George e. Pickett, who was
made so additionally famous by what
has been termed "Pickett's charge at
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
How We Marched.
BY JAMES FRANKLIN Fits,
OMETIMEs, i,

OMETIMEs, in
these piping days
an d nights of
peace, when the
loud thunder and
the vivid CLEAN Of
the Zig b t n i n G
lwaken me as I
slumber on my
comfortable mat
tress, and I hear
the dash Of the
rain against the
window-panes, 1
turn over and say
to myself before
drifting O fl to
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
THE HoUsEKEEPER.
shc Possibilities of Dried apple.

she Possibilities of Dried apple.
Perhaps nothing, says lady in Home
and Form, has to bear with greater abuse
in its cooking than dried apple. The same
string of shrunken, well-dried quarters can
be stewed into q delicious or an abomin-
able connection, according to it's right or
wrong management. Dried apple must
dried fruits in one-for many of us house,
keepers through the summer months.
What pity not to cook this old standby as
perfectly as possible! Did you ever see
housewives help dump generous apron
full of shriveled dried apple quarters into q
stingy allowance of hot water into kettle
that is not half big enough for the fruit
when swollen, and then put the kettle over
hot fire, which quickly cooks the lower
strata of apple into scorched mush and
sets the upper ones bobbing out of the ket-
tie onto the stove like SO many live creat-
ures? She flops them back, chops them
down, and adds sugar or molasses before
half the apple is half done, and with such
management she is able to fill pies and
sauce-bowls with an unappetizing stew,
thickened with chunks of withered, wizzled
fruit, as tough and hard rs leather, and
favored with fakes of burnt porcelain
scraped from the kettles bottom.
I like to swell each section Of apple,
either by steamlng or by long soak IN
cold water, before it is set cooking. Then
simmer the fruit very slowly and evenly in
plenty of hot, sweetened water. Don't
stir, don't chop, don't mush the apple, but
let the fruit stand in the kettle till par
TALLY cool; then spice or flavor and pour
out into sauce-bowls the delicious, thor
oughly cooked whole apple quarters and
halves, as clear as amber and as firm as
trembling jelly. If the apple is designed
for pies sift it through colander before
splicing.
For molasses cake and soft gingerbread I
like to keep in readiness cans of prepared
apple. Soak until fully swelled guam
tity dried apple quarters OF halves. Chop
into bits as large as small raisins and SIM
mer slowly in molasses till the apple il
clear and candied. Apple SO prepared will
keep long time, even if the cans ore not
sealed.
I used to run or send to the attic when
ever dried apple was wanted for cooking,
but have learned that better way is to
keep q stone jar of unstrung quarters in
the back pantry-on an upper shelf if baby
has access to the room. It is the children's
work to replenish this jar when it gets low,
and bringing the skeins of apple from the
garnet and unstringing the dried halves or
quarters helps occupy some restless hour
of rainy day.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09

Gettysburg" Mrs. Pickett before her
marriage was Miss LaSalle Corbell,
of Chuckatuck, Nansemond County,
Virginia, where she was born. She
married General Pickett, Sept. Is,
1868, at the age Of fifteen years. Mrs.
Pickett accompanied her husband
through the portion of the war
which Immediately followed aft
er the date Of her marriage,
going into the hardships and
trials Of camp life. At the conclusion
of the war General Pickett and his
wife went to Canada and lived there
under the name of Edwards. They
were poor, and Mrs. Pickett got posi-
ton as teacher of Latin and elocution.
Returning in course Of time from Can
ada, they stopped in New York, engag-
ing small apartments, but old friends
Of the General put them in better cir
cumstances, and did so much for them
that feelings OF friendship were estab-
lished which could never be broken.
General Pickett, accompanied by his
wife, soon after this returned to the
South, where he established himself in
business. His death occasioned Mrs.
Pickett the sincerest bereavement OF
an eventful life.
Paying to View the Battlefield.
II DECLARE" said a gentleman who
had Just returned from trip through
the South, "it's an outrage; that's just
what it is.
"What's an outrage?" said a man
with bad limp, who had just come lip.
"Why, this thing OF fencing in the
battlefelds and making q man pull out
his pocketbook before he can look at
them. I even had to pay quarter to
view the battlefield of Lookout Noun
tains, piece Of scenery that ought to
be national property.
"Is that what they charge now?"
"Yes."
"They've reduced the price, then,
since was there.
"You don't say so? What did it cost
you?"
"Why, sir, it cost me as good a leg
as any man ever stood upon, and I've
had to stump along on cork the best l
could ever since. A quarter! Umph!
You got off cheap"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09
General George e. Pickett.

The event of Mrs. Pickett's nresonco
at the celebration l'S,iDo OF Gettysburg
brings George E. Pickett, the deceased
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-09

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS ADS.
Ba. gains,--FO Sale, For Rent.

SIXTY DOLLARS-will buy four nice build
- ing lots I'm block l39, on AlAzan creek. In
auire OF T. b. johnson LI0HT once.
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The Millionaire and the Tramp.

The millionaire and the tramp form the
two extremes of American society, but in one
respect they have common quality-they
are for the most part homeless. The home
less tramp, because of his dire poverty, vaga-
bondizes to any place that will give him tenn
porary food and shelter. The homeless rich,
because Of what Matthew Arnold calls
"beastly prosperity" ~clOse their houses" by
the seaside, in the mountains and in the cities,
and wander the world over in quest of
pleasure. Both classes are itinerants, and
both suffer loss because they are not rooted in
homes, which "never so humble" or never so
grand, give an anchorage to the human be-
ing and chance for growth.-Mary A.
Livermore in The Chautauquan.
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